TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Graduate studies in nuclear chemistry and in applications of nuclear techniques leading
to both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are offered at Texas A&M University. Course
programs are tailored to individual students and include both lecture and laboratory
courses.

The focus of the graduate program is on independent research supervised by members of
the graduate faculty. The programs are primarily centered at the Texas A&M Cyclotron
Institute which operates a K500 superconducting cyclotron. This machine delivers many
lighter projectiles (e.g., 12C, 16O, 20Ne) at energies as high as 70 MeV/mass unit in
stand-alone operation. A new ECR source coupled to the cyclotron allows acceleration of
heavier ions such as Ar to energies of 50 MeV/mass unit and Kr or Xe to energies of 20
MeV/mass unit. This provides a variety of beams of great utility for a diverse program of
research such as that carried out at Texas A&M.

Associated with the Institute, with the Nuclear Reactor Center, and with other
laboratories on the campus, is a full range of state-of-the-art detection devices and
instrumentation for the nuclear programs. Modern computer facilities based on VAX
computers are utilized at the Cyclotron Institute, as well as in the Department of
Chemistry.

Currently five Chemistry faculty members supervise graduate research in nuclear
chemistry. The programs underway include nuclear reaction mechanism investigations,
studies of the properties of highly excited nuclei, of astrophysical and other
measurements with radioactive secondary beams, of relativistic heavy ion interactions, and
of atomic excitation by high energy projectiles.
Research and teaching assistantships are available at competitive stipends.